Editing Officio Assassinorum (section)

==Divisions==
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The Officio Assassinorum has six "temples," or specialist branches, each focused on one particular method of assassination: 
* [[Callidus]] - shapeshifters, masters of infiltration. Comprise ENTIRELY of women (or [[Squad Broken|women pretending to be Orks]], or...just...try not to think about it).
* [[Culexus]] - soulless gothtards that are invisible & immune to psykers, daemons & the Warp.
* [[Eversor]] - cyborg, drugged-up killing machines that have two settings: coma and '''RIP'N'TEAR!!'''1!!1!one!
* [[Vanus]] - leet hacker NERD CHESS PLAYERS. All are genii in the fields of intelligence gathering, strategy and [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. "The cleanest kill is one that another performs in your stead with no knowledge of your incitement." They are what every neckbeard wants to be.
* [[Venenum]] - master poisoners who can take the things found in a vegan's kitchen and kill a [[Space Marine]] with the resulting mixture (death by malnutrition, presumably).
* [[Vindicare]] - snipers that can "BOOM! HEADSHOT!" from beyond the horizon.
* ''[[Maerorus]]'' - a failed attempt at creating a [[Sly Marbo|living weapon able to operate without support or equipment for a prolonged period of time.]] The only one created proved to be impossible to control and went rogue; all attempts at making more were immediately discontinued. Think Alex Mercer from Prototype, only even more sociopathic. Technically a resounding success, but it had issues with loyalty.

* [[Adamus]] - generic super ninja sword-swinging DeathStroke wannabes. Allegedly the oldest of the Assassin Clades from the Crusade era, from before the big 4 were more considerably expanded, but it's uncertain if they still exist in the 41st millennium. Their models harken back to the old Rogue Trader Assassin models from the 80's.

[[Death Cult Assassin|Death Cult Assassins]] aren't part of this framework; there are thousands -if not tens of thousands- of death cults throughout the Imperium and they each train in their own way to kill enemies of the God-Emperor but are not officially sanctioned and are more autonomous than the Assassins. Although particularly talented Death Cultists might be trained by the Assassinorum as basically a reward and either just become a better Death Cultist for it or outright be inducted as an Imperial Assassin.

Of course, these are just the ones we know about so far. A couple have been added over the years and, of course, even if the lore is concrete that there are no other temples, there's nothing stopping the Assassins from having other temples for the wide variety of ways to kill people or sub-variants for particular types of enemies. Oh sure, the High Lords might spaz out, but they have the Emperor's personal approval and, realistically, no one can stop them from doing this. Heck, it wouldn't be surprising if there was a psyker-based temple that assassinates by scrying a heretic leader and just willing him to die so hard that he drops dead mid-monologue.